If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curl-httpie is what you are searching for. Curl-httpie is a drop-in replacement for httpie that use curl to perform operations. All curl options exposed with most syntax sugar and output formatting provided by httpie.

Using homebrew:

brew install rs/tap/curl-httpie

Hello World:

$ http httpie.org

Synopsis:

$ http [curl options] [METHOD] URL [ITEM [ITEM]]

See HTTPie doc for more examples.

• Like curl but unlike httpie, headers are written on stderr instead of stdout.
• Output is not buffered, all the formatting is done on the fly so you can easily debug streamed data.